Glen A Stromquist wrote:
> After some minor hair-pulling I've managed to get the 9i software
> installed on SuSE 7.3 pro, despite mysteriously losing the functionality
> of "su" somehow near the end of the install.(I had to log out and back
> in as root to run the root.sh script then do a manual "relink all") But
> I'm missing the oratab file, I found this out when after using dbca to
> create some basic create scripts it goes ahead and tries to create the
> database anyway.
>
> Thinking back thru the install I *think* that I may have accidentally
> ran the root.sh script rather than the orainstRoot.sh script when
> prompted to. I think that this would also explain why the universal
> installer does not see anything installed when I get it to check for
> installed products (I was going to blow it all away and redo from
> scratch, *taking notes this time*)
>
> I cant find the orainstRoot.sh file so I'm assuming that its
> created/deleted during the install? Can I run it again (if I find it) or
> should I just take the oratab file from an 8i install on SuSE and edit
> it. There is also the issue of the inventory pointer that I think the
> .sh script creates. I'd like to probably do a re-install just for the
> sake of it, but I'd like to have the OUI do the de-install first.
>
>
> TIA
>
I have not installed 9i on SuSE, but on Red Hat Linux the oratab file is
located under the /etc directory. Check it out, maybe installing it
there under SuSE Linux too.
hope this proves helpful
regards
Zafer AKTAN
Oracle DBA/Developer
Received on Sat Sep 13 2003 - 04:37:37 CDT
